[Eleutheria5]

Have been noting that for some time. Unlikely that Ukraine will achieve a military victory. But internal privations and social unrest caused by decaying infrastructure are the by-product of the war, and will probably bring Putin down at some point, if not reversed.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

But internal privations and social unrest caused by decaying infrastructure are the by-product of the war, and will probably bring Putin down at some point

You post this stuff every year:

Russian mobilised soldiers stage mutiny and hit back at Putin
Posted on 10/28/2022, 6:59:24 AM by Eleutheria5
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4104158/posts

'Putin is a dead man walking'
Posted on 7/9/2023, 3:15:08 PM by Eleutheria5
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166667/posts

[Paleo Conservative]

If Ukraine can capture Crimea, Russia will have a tenuous hold on the land in eastern Ukraine which it currently occupies. Crimea was a supply depot for Russia’s occupation forces.

[Cronos]

As Sun Tzu wrote “if victory is
long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and
their ardor will be damped.

5. . Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war,
cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

6. There is no instance of a country having benefited
from prolonged warfare.”